Bohumil Hrabal

I Served The King Of England

Featuring an introduction by Adam Thirlwell

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Produktbeschreibung

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ADAM THIRLWELL'Our very best writer today' Milan KunderaSparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England is a story of how the unbelievable came true.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9780099540939
• ISBN-10: 0099540932
• Artikelnr.: 26217216

Autorenporträt

Bohumil Hrabal was born in 1914 in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia. He received a degree in Law from Prague's Charles University, and lived in Prague since the late 1940s. In the 1950s he worked as a manual laborer in the Kladno ironworks, from which he drew inspiration for his "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at that time. He won international acclaim for such books as I Served the King of England and Too Loud a Solitude. Hrabal is considered, along with Jaroslav Hasek and Karel Capek, as one of the greatest Czech writers of the 20th century, and perhaps the most important in the post-war period. In February 1997 he flew out of his hospital window never to return.